Sorry I guess I meant 401 instead of 5xx? Well, same question tho.

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by the way, i changed to
nginx basic_auth and when I enter
wrong
credentials, it allows me endless tries.  i'm was
used
to apache gives a 5xx page after three
bad tries.  i guess you
could refresh that
and try again in apache too, but endless
tries without a error for nginx?  is there a
way to change this?

>  I
have set up HTTP auth using the auth_pam module (although
>  I'm not sure that module is the
problem - it might be nginx
> 
problem).
> 
>  https://github.com/stogh/ngx_http_auth_pam_module/
> 
>  All works great
for a while----
> 
>  After some time, browsers begin to
prompt for authentication
>  over
>  and over again (I guess once for every
image, stylesheet,
>  script, etc?).
>  Or maybe it is prompting because the
credentials failed, but
>  I
don't
>  think so because if I hit
cancel/ESC over and over again, I
>  can
use
>  the web page (I'm still
authenticated), but none of the
> 
images or
>  scripts have loaded.
> 
>  The logs
don't show any indication of what caused the
>  prompts to
>  start
showing. Previously, I saw this error (in nginx's
>  error log)
> 
associated with the situation:
> 
>  Can't initialize threads: error
11
> 
>  This looks
a little like a MySQL error (I use pam_mysql
>  behind
> 
auth_pam).I don't know if there is some bad code in
>  auth_pam
>  causing
this(?). Restarting nginx fixed the prompting in
>  this case.
> 
>  However, today, the prompting started
again and the above
>  error
>  does NOT appear. I don't see any
errors. Browser doesn't
>  matter
-
>  tried it on firefox, mobile,
whatever.
> 
>  I
will try to test with just the built-in basic auth but
>  that's not a long
>  term solution for me, I need pam/mysql
behind the auth (lot
>  of virt
>  users).


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